Researchers' views depend in part on what technology is (or will be) capable of – and in part on what consciousness actually is.
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Articles on Consciousness
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Author Kate Cole-Adams delves into fascinating questions about consciousness and self.
Both psychologists and neuroscientists are interested in how working memory holds on to items over brief intervals – and are investigating from different angles.
Terrifying accounts of surgery 200 years ago remind us how far general anaesthesia has come. Yet we still know little about how anaesthetics alter consciousness.
Neuroscience can now make a difference in the lives of people with severe brain injury, but will they get the care they deserve? More than a question of entitlements, this is an issue of civil rights.
Scientists are increasingly working out that the body actually shapes the mind. New research even raises hopes about new treatments for mental health problems.
It has long been claimed that subliminal messages work. Now two studies have set the record straight.
Many people believe they have a soul. But for psychologists, who study behaviour, it is not so much that souls do not exist, it is that there is no need for them.
How to embrace the characteristics that give start-up businesses their edge.
Lucid dreaming is showing some promise in treating nightmares. Could it help treat some mental illnesses, too?
Insects have similar structures in their brains as do we, and that might mean that have a basic form of consciousness.
The idea of non-human consciousness raises a host of philosophical questions.
Consciousness is one of the most puzzling phenomena in science. How does the electric and chemical activity in your brain produce your subjective experiences; the colour red or the taste of chocolate?
Consciousness is one of the most mysterious phenomena we know of. But evidence is emerging that it might just be a very special kind of information processing.
Measuring certain kinds of brain activity may help doctors track and predict how patients will react to anaesthesia before going under for surgery, our research has found.
As machines get ever more complex as we strive to make them complete more complex tasks, it's time to ask again: will they ever be able to think? But what is thinking anyway?
Is genuine artificial consciousness possible? Should we protect jobs from automation? Your questions on AI and robots answered here.
Your eye movements may be changing the images in your dreams when you sleep.
Will we ever have a scientific measure of consciousness? This was the essay topic I set my student a few months ago – only days before I went on maternity leave for the recent birth of my baby Joe (more…
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